One for Sorrow
Pairing: McRoll
Spoilers for season 10 - Episode 7
Chapter - 27
If anything, he felt a bit more refreshed after his conversation with Danny which consisted of being longer than he had anticipated. Danny at times got on his nerves like a brother would, and yet at the same time, he always relished in getting his opinion or thoughts about something, especially when it was something serious. He had missed hearing Danny's voice and the banter they had together with him while he was gone and it was nice to hear his voice again and not surprisingly, he had god advice for Steve as well.
He reminded Steve that he needed to heal and needed time to grieve, and be with his family who knew what he was going through. Once he finished the phone call, he made the coffee's and being careful not to walk in and interrupt, he smiled softly when he heard soft voices now talking more upbeat about the move to Hawaii for both Mary, Joan and Catherine. "Thought you both could use a coffee, I know I can too". He smiled softly as he sat back down where he had been sitting before and passed a steaming hot cup of coffee to Mary and Catherine, keeping one to himself. "Thanks big bro, Is Joan okay in there? I can't hear her reading".
Steve pulled out his phone and opened up his photo app, showing them the photo he had taken of Joan snuggled up under the blanket he had put on her with one of Eddie's paws resting on top of hers, "She's out like a light.. I figure when she wakes up, perhaps we can go grab some lunch at Kamakona's shrimp truck and then we can get some extra to take back to the team.. I promised Joanie I'd give her a tour of five-o and since Danny is there doing paperwork all day, Charlie is with him while Grace and Rachel tour a couple of the colleges on the island".
Both Mary and Catherine loved that idea, everyone knew that Kamakona's shrimp truck was one of the best places to eat on the island and Catherine was looking forward to seeing everyone again as well. She hadn't really seen Charlie since Steve had told her that he was in fact Danny's son and not Stan's as everyone thought for so many years. "Sounds like a good idea bro, I will need to talk to Danny as well about the school Charlie goes to, see what if he thinks it would be a good school for Joan to attend". Catherine as well could see that Steve was itching to get back to work to see how much paperwork had piled up on his desk over the last couple of months too.
"I know you Steve, you will want to do work while you are there, so if you need a hand with any of the paperwork, I'm your girl". Catherine knew how much he despised having to do paperwork so anything she could help him with, she was happy to do. "Thanks Cath, I might take you up on that offer depending how much is there". He wanted to speak to Danny first, but he wanted to offer an invitation for her to join back up to five-o if she wanted to. They had Tani, and Quinn and another female, especially one as fierce as Catherine.
He knew it would be a tight squeeze, but he was looking at extending the officer a bit further out, they still had room to do some renovations and with their team now growing in size, they needed the extra room. It would feel like coming home if she was to agree to coming back to five-o. He loved whenever they worked together, they were always in sync with the other, and could speak without even talking, one look and they knew exactly what the other was planning to do. At that moment, Joan woke up, and came into the dinning room where they were all still talking. She got up onto her Uncle's lap yawning a little as he wrapped his arm around her waist and leaned in, kissing her head.
"So good of you to join us sleepy head, we were thinking about going out for some lunch and then visiting five-o, and maybe even stop in at HPD to see Uncle Duke, what do you think?" She smiled, her sleepiness quickly fading away, bouncing up and down in her Uncle's arms, "Can we go to Uncle Kammi's for lunch?" Mary chuckled and patted her daughter on the back lightly. "We figured you would ask that so we have already agreed to go, besides, where else would we want to go for lunch?" She noticed her daughter's hair had gotten a little messed up from her sleep and chuckled.
"How bout you go and get the hairbrush and the water spray bottle so I can fix your hair up and then we can get out of here and on our way to lunch already, we're starving". Joanie giggled when she heard her Uncle's stomach rumble at the exact same time as Mary mentioning they were starving. "Okay Mommy". She jumped off Steve's lap and ran upstairs, Mary calling after her to be careful and slow down on the stair case. "Just like you Sis.. She reminds me of a mini Mary. If Mom had to remind you once, she had to remind you a million times not to run on the stair case".
Mary slapped her brother playfully on the arm and smirked, "Yeah, well I wasn't the only one.. I remember Mom constantly having to remind to remind you to wear your helmet when you rode your bike or skateboard around the neighbourhood". Next to them, Catherine sat smiling softly, just watching the playful banter. She remembered the promise she had made Deb McGarrett when she had first been diagnosed with a brain tumour.. She promised to keep those two close, now she hadn't done a lot to facilitate that, it seemed those two had done well on their own and she was really happy to see it how close they had grown over the years. They were family and despite what they had to deal with in their lives, they were finally coming back together as a proper family unit and Catherine for one couldn't be happier to be apart of that.
Author's Notes.
Thank you again for all your support during this story. I am really loving where it is heading so far, and I'm really happy with how it's progressing as well. I am sorry for the delay in the updates, I am on the late shift at work this week so it's been tough to be able to write. I'm thrilled that this has gotten as far as it has so thus far and I'm looking forward to doing perhaps a sequel once this is done. I'd like to see Cath and Steve married with a kid or two, and maybe even Mary settling down, Danny settling back down with Rachel like he is meant to. Got so many idea, always too little a time.
Also wanting some advice that I'd like your thoughts on as readers… So far I haven't gone to much in detail with smut scenes involving Catherine and Steve, how far would you readers like me to go in terms of detail? I'd like to know your thoughts as I'm not sure how much is too much or too little. I used to be very detailed and graphic in my Destiel SPN smut scenes, but would like some thoughts here as well. That goes for you all as well any advice is appreciated because I don't want my readers to feel uncomfortable if it feels too detailed or too graphic for you.